After finishing writing, Tang Ke suddenly felt less anxious.

"Someone come here!"

The people below came over in small steps.

"Prepare a mutton hot pot."

"yes."

Fan Chunren was speechless. "Master Tang, now is not the time to eat mutton hotpot!"

The great victory at Beiyuan Village was certainly a good thing, but the siege of Beifu had not yet been lifted.

"Um...Master Tang, although the victory at Beiyuan Village was great, the barbarian army of 500,000 is gathered outside Beifu City!"

"Commander Yue said there's no rush, so why should we be in a hurry!"

Tang Ke not only started eating hot pot, but also listened to Su Su's zither music.

The mutton in the Northwest is indeed much tastier than that in the Central Plains.

Tang Ke has gained weight again after only a few months here.

The food here is much better than what we had in the capital.

Tang Ke had been away from the central government for more than two years, and he suddenly realized that being in the local area was not bad either.

You don't need to argue with this person or fight with that person on a regular basis.

In the officialdom of Northwest China, officials of all ranks, big and small, were more or less promoted by him.

Coming here is like being in your element.

Although there was a Grand Commander Yue Fei above him, Yue Fei was not a power-hungry person. He only took charge of military and political affairs, and basically did not concern himself with civil affairs and logistics.

Tang Ke ate with his mouth covered in oil, and Fan Chunren watched anxiously: "What if it really happens..."

"Now that I think about it, I feel that the barbarians on the grasslands are actually quite weak in combat..." Tang Ke thought for a moment, then suddenly remembered a phrase the emperor had used, "They're really weak in combat!"

The news that Beifu is surrounded by an army of 500,000 barbarians is truly shocking.

When this news reached Tokyo, those people probably couldn't sleep again.

If they can't sleep, they'll go and bother the emperor.

Hehe, this seems like a big deal, but on second thought, it's not actually that serious.

The barbarians were used to living on the grasslands, and their advantage lay in fighting in the open field.

Their greatest weakness is their ability to besiege cities.

The incident at Beiyuan Village is a good example of this.

The 120,000-strong army failed to conquer Beiyuan Village; instead, they were thoroughly thrashed by Beiyuan Village.

As for Beifu, it was a giant city on the grassland built by the imperial court at great expense.

The city walls there were thirty meters high, with one hundred cannons, twenty thousand muskets, and four hundred thousand bows and arrows.

There are 100,000 elite troops and as many as 200,000 reserve troops, which can be drawn from Blackwater City at any time.

The prospect of a barbarian army of 500,000 pressing in sounds incredibly stressful.

But if it were truly opened, the barbarians would be unable to breach the Northern Prefecture.

With the great victory at Beiyuan Village, Tang Ke was full of confidence.

He understood why Yue Fei had replied to him, telling him not to worry.

Tang Ke suddenly realized another problem: the fighting power of the Song army seemed to have exceeded the expectations of these civil officials. The military reforms of recent years had indeed played a significant role!

This is certainly a good thing when facing external enemies, but if someone harbors rebellious intentions, then...

The thought flashed through Tang Ke's mind, but he didn't think about it any further.

“Yaofu, I have also written this memorial.” Tang Ke thought for a moment and said, “The most important thing right now is to bring all the grain and people into the prefectures and close the city gates of all the prefectures.”

"Although we cannot mobilize troops, as Commander Yue said, we can adopt a scorched-earth policy and wage a protracted war against the barbarians to deplete their fighting strength."

Fan Chunren nodded, agreeing with Yue Fei's statement.